Barbara Wiedemann (born October 30, 1945) is an American poet. She has published four books of poetry, besides a number of poems in literary journals. She is the author of one monograph and co-editor of two critical studies. She was formerly a professor of English literature at Auburn University at Montgomery.^[1]

Barbara Wiedemann was born on October 30, 1945, and grew up in upstate New York. She received her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida.^[1]

Wiedemann has published poems in a number of journals, including Kaleidoscope, Kerf, Poetry Motel, and Acorn.^{[citation needed]} Four of her collections were published by Finishing Line Press: Half-Life of Love (2008), Sometime in October (2013), Death of a Pope and Other Poems (2012), and Desert Meditations (2018).^[1][2]

Wiedemann has authored a critical study, Josephine Herbst's Short Fiction: A Window to Her Life and Times, on the work of Josephine Herbst, the radical American writer, and is the co-editor of two books, Short Fiction: A Critical Companion and "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem. The latter is the first edition of a 1632 autobiographical poem, 110 lines long, by Martha Moulsworth—one of the first such poems in English, which was included in the seventh edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature.^[3]

Her essay on Hélène Cixous and Marguerite Duras, "The Search for an Authentic Voice: Hélène Cixous and Marguerite Duras", was reprinted in the collection Marguerite Duras Lives On.^[4]

• Wiedemann, Barbara (2018). Desert Meditations. Finishing Line Press. ISBN 978-1-63534-440-0.
• Wiedemann, Barbara (2013). The Death of a Pope and Other Poems. Finishing Line Press. ISBN 978-1-62229-318-6.
• Wiedemann, Barbara (2010). Sometime in October. Finishing Line Press. ISBN 978-1-59924677-2.
• Wiedemann, Barbara (2008). Half-Life of Love. Finishing Line Press. ISBN 978-1-59924-144-9. (poetry).^[5]
• Wiedemann, Barbara (1998). Josephine Herbst's Short Fiction: A Window to Her Life and Times. Susquehanna UP. ISBN 978-1-57591-007-9. (monograph).
• Evans, Robert C.; Anne Little; Barbara Wiedemann (1997). Short Fiction: A Critical Companion. West Cornwall: Locust Hill Press. ISBN 978-0-933951-73-0. (edited collection).
• Evans, Robert C.; Barbara Wiedemann (1993). "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem. West-Cornwall: Locust Hill Press. (monograph).^[6]